Notice Board

Opportunities to work within Therapeutic Communities

For new opportunities to work in a Therapeutic Community, please
click on the job titles below for more information about the
role. Please use the contact details provided in the
adverts for all correspondents relating to these
opportunities.

Amicus Community -Therapeutic Home
Manager

Permanent- full time

£33,000

Location: Littlehampton, West Sussex

Closing date: 26 September 2017

Additional information about this post can be found
here. For further information and to apply for this post please
contact Rebecca Newton, Director for an application pack by
emailing beccy@theamicuscommunity.com
or phoning 01243 544107.

Amicus Community -Therapeutic Care Worker

Permanent- full time and bank positions

£22,000pa increasing to £23,000pa after 18 months

Shift work, including sleep-ins

Location: Littlehampton, West Sussex

Closing date: 26 September 2017

Additional information about this post can be found here.
For further information and to apply for this post please contact
Rebecca Newton, Director for an application pack by emailing
beccy@theamicuscommunity.com
or phoning 01243 544107.

Ashburn Clinic -Consultant Psychiatrist

If you would like to post an advert for an
opportunity to work within your therapeutic community, or would
like to post an notice on our notice board, please email
Katherine.Plummer@rcpsych.ac.uk

COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES 2016
COMPETITION For the 2016-2017 cycle we launched a
Creative Competition split into 5 categories. We received some
fantastic entries, and the network have voted on their
winners!

2nd Place is awarded to Stuart Ballingall from
HMP Gartree with 'Metaphor'.

Metaphor

Sat in my 6 by 9 this afternoon with the TV on but not really
watching it because my mind was a million miles away as usual after
I put in a shift on therapy today.

Outside through the bars the sun was trickling
into my cell on a mild October day, when something caught my gaze.
Out the corner of my eye I saw this little movement and my
attention was summoned.

It fell! But stopped mid-air, amazed I moved
to focus my view. It moved again and started to climb, how strange
what was this doing in my thoughts? Again I was a million miles
away as usual musing with a smile, this little thing had my
attention again.

It fell again and stopped mid-air as if by
magic, now I really was interested! Again it moved and started to
climb. This time was a little further than before but then without
choice it fell again, but stopped mid-air.

A leisurely smile broke across my face
watching this little miracle happening before me. Intrigued I
studied more on this little thing and again it started to climb for
another attempt gaining more distance than the last time until
again it fell.

A humorous chuckle left my lips and again this
little thing started to climb until it got up to a vantage point
and again it fell.

This time it was I who climbed, climbed the
thoughts to remember where I had this memory. After some time,
struggling with this echo, I finally recalled where it had come
from.

It was a King sat in a cave contemplating a
battle, trying to find his answer just watching a spider trying to
cast a web failing and failing until finally at last it managed to
get where it wanted to be without ever giving up.